No Maserati, but to quote Joe Walsh "life's been good to me so far" = wellfed + my nationality.

The photo is technically poor but it amuses me. One of my dogs (the male chocolate lab) was sitting on my boat when one of my brother's dogs (a very domineering female) muscled in. My off-kilter sense of humour sees this as a harangued married man being told off by his wife. (But maybe I've just been married waaay too long...)

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Don't take my advice. Don't even take my advice not to take my advice.

Mine comes from my days of competitive bodybuilding, needed a contact name when I moved to live and train in Thailand....Actually competed as Super Heavy, but that was too long as a contact...+ year of birth 1967.

Still live in Thailand, retired from competitive bodybuilding and all the associated chemicals...

Also... My education is in neuroscience, I spent 8 years teaching neuroanatomy to medical students (as well as gross anatomy, histology, etc.). For many years, my 'day job' was quantitative neuroanatomy - assessing gene expression changes in the brain.

I am not a professional photographer, so I thought "notapro" would be nice for a name. The photo is of a gila monster, an animal indigenous to the Sonoran desert of southern Arizona (and to the part of northern Mexico directly south of Arizona). Seeing the gila monster brings to mind my favorite kind of weather: hot!

The first two letters are my initials, ab is for "aus Berlin" - from Berlin, where I used to live when I was in need for a username. The numbers are a mix of several things and were necessary because someone with the same initials in Berlin had the same idea.

eml as they are my initials (Edward M Lang), 58 because 50 wasn't available, 1950 being year of birth, the avatar ?? I thought the Buda shot simply looked better the attached shot of me, still do, attached shot taken by my youngest Lad, Botswana 2012, on his Nikon 5200 (Gasp), Kids !! what can you do.

Norman Bates is the crazy guy from Psycho. This was my war game for online gaming back in the times of Quake 3 and Age of Empires 2 (hint: launch date, not this millennium). Then I took it as my forum name too.

Picture: a toy that my girlfriend gave me; she bought it because it looks pretty much like me